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I still enjoy watching the Lil' Rascals/Our Gang comedies. I've got a DVD collection (for $4.50) that showcases five of their best episodes, especially the banned "Wild Man of Borneo" segment. This was the one where a wild man from Africa escapes from a circus and for various reasons the kids think he's Spanky's real-life uncle. The episode was yanked after pressure groups said it was demeaning to blacks. Also, the Marx Brothers and Lou and Costello are both great fun to watch. And I'll never pass up a Laurel and Hardy short.

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I was thinking that since TCM is the only place you can see the occasional Laurel & Hardy short wouldn't it be nice to feature those films on a Saturday or Sunday time slot.(Especially their silent shorts.) TCM did an overnight showing for Chaplin last year so L & H could get the same treatment. I could use new recordings.

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Yes, yes, yes. L&H deserve the same revival that is being given to the Marx Brothers. L&H are the Apollonian to the Marx's Dionysian. We need especially to see the shorts, many of which seem to be unavailable these days. I recall L&H on TV on Sunday mornings for years when I was younger.

There's no question that those who are unfamiliar with them will like them, if only they can see them in action. I give you as an example, the fact that my daughter, when a little girl, was rather indifferent to L&H, but as a teenager, watching 'Twice Two,' she turned to me and said 'Hey, they got good!'

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Cicely Courtneidge is making me laugh this morning as TCM shows her in The Perfect Gentleman (Frank Morgan is the title character). Previously I'd only read about Miss Courtneidge. When I saw that TCM would be showing one of her films I made sure to see it. She's a delight!

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Yes, you are right. In fact, I taped those on my first, pre-cable, humongous VCR, and there are places on the tape where you can see that I am trying to adjust the picture by clicking the antenna. Remember the opening of that WOR show, with Babe singing "Fre-eesh Fi-i-ish!!"?

It would be wonderful to have all of the L&H work restored. I have a few commercial tapes that are of really bad quality. Seeing the excellent condition of "Sons of the Desert" on TCM recently made me realize how very much better it would be to have all of this work look so good.

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Wow, it's great you two got to see those shorts on channel 9. If it was 15 years ago I was only 10 and not able to record, haha. I've just seen a few of their movies and they just kill me. I can't believe I forgot Jerry Lewis. He's another favorite of mine.

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Harold Lloyd. Memorable Moment: in The Freshman, with the kitten inside his sweater.

Frank McHugh. Memorable Moment: epecially in Footlight Parade, when he's showing the chorus girls how to move like a cat!

Guy Kibbee. Memorable Moment: in The Dark Horse, when, as a gubernatorial candidate, he remembers to pause, look pensive, and apply his index finger to his chin before answering a reporter's question with a long drawn out "Y-e-e-e-s, but then again n-o-o-o."

Eve Arden. Memorable Moment: in everything, but especially in Mildred Pierce as the truth-telling second banana to you-know-who. Even when there are no lines, her expressions say it all.

Thelma Ritter. Memorable Moment: in A Letter to Three Wives, as she struggles to remove a screen and announce dinner, emerging from the shambles with her little maid's cap askew, (earlier in the movie I think she'd mentioned that she thought it was something to put on a lambchop.)

Phil Silvers : Memorable Moment: Rarely funny in the movies, though he has his moments in Summer Stock, but repeatedly in the old Bilko shows.

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the 3 stooges have been making me laugh since i can remember! tony randall is hilarious in the doris day movies, and lucy was so funny when she made fun fun of ricky's accent! cary grant in walk don't run and monkey business, maureen o'hara in parent trap, and tony curtis in some like it hot. nowadays i like anyone from saturday night live, and bea arthur is genius in the golden girls.